Landscape contractor Jenn Nawada shows host Kevin O’Connor how to preserve and protect a garden over the winter.
Learn to make a beautiful trellis for your garden or landscape with this free downloadable plan.
What if you stopped thinking of your backyard as a tiny bit of lawn, trapped by a fence, and instead began thinking of it as an outdoor room, with dirt for a floor and the sky for a ceiling? This is an approach that works particularly well for townhouse backyards, and it can work for you, too. Here’s a little inspiration.
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7:30am I found a bag of 15 mixed beans marked down at Kroger. Was $2.96 paid $1.49. I put about 3/4ths a bag in a pan of water to soak. I want to make a big pot of ham and bean soup for supper. I saved the other 1/4 bag and put it with my garden seeds. They say you can plant store bought bags of beans. You just can't plant the split peas. Beans in this bag- Northern, Pinto, Large Lima, Yelloweye Bean, Garbanzo, Baby Lima, Green Split Pea, Kidney, Cranberry Bean, Small White, Pink Bean, Small Red, Yellow Split Pea, Lentil, Navy, White Kidney, Black Bean. 10:05am Got the garden watered this morning and hung the grape vine on the trellis. I also got all the weed debris raked up that I took down from along the fence yesterday. I have baby radishes beginning to sprout. I planted them May 14th so it took about 7 days to get this far. I also have some Zinnias coming up that I planted in the tomato beds. Now to get a game plan for this back fence and planting a flower bed in front of it. This is where I'd like to plant 4 rose bushes and 5 hydrangeas along with other flowers. This is where the back of the yard slopes downwards. Hard to tell by just a photo. Doesn't look to hard to do right? Well you figure each fence panel is 8 feet wide times 7 of them will make this flower bed 56 feet long. Now that I look at it this way I should have bought all the remaining rose bushes Big Lots had marked down half off. I might plant 2 hydrangeas (pink and hot pink but they could change their color to blue once planted in the soil) at each end of the fence then plant one in the middle of the fence. Plant 2 rose bushes (pinks and reds) on each side of the middle hydrangea. Then plant a low growing white flower like asylum in front of everything. I know everything won't fill in right away and may take years to grow so I need to have patience, lots of patience! I would so love to accomplish this look one day except with white alyssum in the front instead of hostas. Alyssum Now all I have to do is dig out a flower bed and any grass in the area in front of the fence. Hmmm, how do you make a flower bed border for cheap especially one that is 56 feet long. So I'm Googling some cheap garden edging options because you know me, cheap is my middle name, lol. Here is what I came up with- Pallet edging. You can find pallets for free. I like free! Cut the pallet slats as shown. This also includes the stakes to pound them in the ground! Paint them black to make a more dramatic flower border. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:30pm Got a big pot of ham and bean soup on the stove. I let my beans soak for 7 or so hours. In a large pot I added 4 cups water and 2 packets of sausage flavored country gravy mix along with a teaspoon of better than boullion chicken base. Then drained the beans and added them into the gravy. I have it all simmering on the stove on low for the next hour to hour and a half and I also threw in a large ham bone with ham. Would love to add in a little celery, onions and carrots. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:45pm My tipsy planter petunias are starting to take off and fill in their pots. Each day I dead head the old flowers so they keep producing more and more. I like to show progress in the garden and how fast things grow. The Daylilies behind them are getting ready to bloom. April 22 May 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4:35pm I filled up the birdbaths this morning. One metal birdbath bowl I put on the ground for the squirrels. Today a pair of doves stopped by for a bath. ------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00pm This evening we took all the yard waste to Tony's work to drop off. When looking for a dumpster to put it in I drove by one that had 4 trellises hanging out of it. Of course I stopped and had to have them, lol. The top two weren't so bad getting out. It was the bottom two that were a real pain because two heavy pallets and other things were on them. I was wore out by the time I was done getting them out. I figured I can wash them up and attach them to the back fence for climbing flowers. Well I am off here for now. Me and Tony are trying to plan our Father's Day weekend vacation. Very rarely do we actually go far away for a vacation and do something. The farthest the whole family has been for vacation is either Indian Lake or Hocking Hills. This year Tony wants us all to go to Michigan to a NASCAR Sprint Cup race. His friend took him free last year to a Nationwide Series race in Michigan. He loved it so much now he wants to take us. We'll go up Saturday and get a hotel room. Go to the race Sunday then back to the hotel that evening til Monday and then head back home. He's taking off a total of 5 days including the weekend. That way we have time to recover at home for a few days. It's one thing to plan for places that you have been to or know the area and it's completely different to do it with an area you've never been to. I don't know where hotels, fast foods and all that jazz are. I plan to take food for lunches and supper to try and cut the costs down. I'm sure breakfasts are free at the hotel. At least kids tickets to the race track 17 and under are half off. Still, tickets for the four of us is going to cost around $240. Oh yeah I see a headache coming on trying to figure all this out. I priced hotels and it would cost us $300- $400 for 2 nights. Then comes the idea of camping. HA HA HA. I saw the price of $229. Hmmm, wonder if we could all sleep on a blow up mattress in the back of the Suburban? -------------------------------------------------- 10:45pm I just saw this unclaimed funds link on wbns 10 tv on Facebook. Unfortunately I don't have any. So I started typing in names of people I know. Hey, if you are my aunt or a cousin that name starts with a "T", I saw that you are owed money :0) For my aunt type in your last married name. Doesn't say how much, only under $100.
Have a shady spot in your yard? You will love these stunning and inspiring shade gardens and find some fantastic plant suggestions for shady spaces.
I'm sharing my favorite Amazon finds for the patio on the blog today! If you're ready to spruce up your outdoor living space this spring and summer, this post is for you.
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In ancient times called hortus conclusus , was a small space , surrounded by high walls, where the monks cultivated plants and tre...
I spotted this sight while strolling the suburbs of Chicago a couple of weeks ago. I love how the gardener has camouflaged the chainlink fence with cosmos, sunflowers, and what looks to be a...
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Weave Your Own Elevated Flower Bed: First of all: please excuse, if my english is some kind of funny - I am german ;-). But let's start with how you can weave your own elevated flower bed ... or fence. You can easily use this technique for other things too. I'd also like to mention, …
In this article, I will share the 30 best backyard lighting ideas that will transform your outdoor space into a magical oasis.
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SHARING IS CARING!Facebook0GoogleTwitterPinterest0Reddit0UPDATED: More How-To Videos & Inspirational Photos Fencing, whether you need it to keep the rabbits, chickens or deer out of the garden, or you are fencing off areas for other reasons, can get very expensive. However it doesn’t have to be that expensive but it will take a bit of work and […]
There comes a point in everyone's life when you are so completely ready to get away from it all. You start daydreaming about secluded cottages during
“for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.” Song of Solomon…
If gardening is your hobby but you don't have enough space to do it then vertical garden is the best solution. So here you go for some DIY vertical garden designs: 1. A Recycled Pallet Garden for Your Front Entrance Tutorial here: at home with kelsey 2. A Vertical Planter Garden for Your Patio Tutorial
Different types of fences can provide privacy, security, pet containment and more. Learn how to choose the right fence style for you.
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